"Poco" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the little river Topino. In choosing our beds at the inn, I perceived one chamber locked, and desired it might be opened; upon which the cameriere declared with some reluctance, "Besogna dire a su' eccellenza; poco fa, che una bestia e morta in questa camera, e non e ancora lustrata," "Your Excellency must know that a filthy Beast died lately in that Chamber, and it is not yet purified and put in order." When I enquired what ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett
... appena splende Dalla rupe natia quand' esce fuora, E a poco a poco lucido se rende Sotto l'attenta che ...
— Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales • Maria Edgeworth
... period's end—then the world stands indebted to the sudden snapping of my father's tobacco-pipe for one of the neatest examples of that ornamental figure in oratory, which Rhetoricians stile the Aposiopesis.—Just Heaven! how does the Poco piu and the Poco meno of the Italian artists;—the insensible more or less, determine the precise line of beauty in the sentence, as well as in the statue! How do the slight touches of the chisel, the pencil, the pen, the fiddle-stick, et caetera,—give the true swell, which gives the ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... 'Queste cose vanno spargendo quelli che han poco volunta di sodisfar alli desideri di S. M. che per se ne sta molto ...
— A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) • Leopold von Ranke
... in the dulcet mood (Quasi Andante, ma sempre un poco mosso) 'mid light waving strings and rich swirling harp, and soothing tones of flutes and muted horns. Then, as all other voices are hushed, the clarinet sings a strain that ends in lowest notes of expressive grief (Recit., espressivo dolente)—where ...
— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp
... probably no earthly reason why the "Poco Mas o Menos" Club of San Francisco should have ever existed, or why its five harmless, indistinctive members should not have met and dined together as ordinary individuals. Still less was there any justification for the gratuitous opinion which obtained, that it was bold, bad, and brilliant. ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... attentive to ladies. The German lady has not spoken a word, possibly not knowing the language. Our good cameriere cannot bear this, and commiserates her weariness with noble elegance and originality. "La Signora si trova un poco sagrificata?" ("The lady feels slightly sacrificed!") We all smile, and the little ...
— Italian Journeys • William Dean Howells
... indulged in every sort of roundabout to spin out his time and our money. We met with a friend who, on our complaint, expostulated with him, and said,—"Seor, these gentlemen say that you drive them very slowly (muy poco poco)." To the which he,—"Seor, if gentlemen will hire a carriage by the hour, and not by the afternoon, they must expect to get on very softly."—Mem. A white driver is always addressed as Seor, and I have occasionally heard such monologues ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various
... fatal urna encierra This fatal urn encloses a fallida vna Magestad: ayer dead majesty, but yestreen temida Deidad, oy breve a reverenced deity, now a mere monton de tierra. heap of earth. Little gains he, and much he errs, who, Poco alcanca, y mucho hierra cautious, does not note the quien prevenido, no advierte mutability of his lot; for lo inconstante de su suerte; Fate does not exempt the pues no reserva la Parca al successor of a monarch from Sucessor de un Monarca ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXXVI, 1649-1666 • Various
... armed with a long pole with an iron spike, such as my uncle described to me ages ago, and which I never expected to wield, we came down La Flegere, which we mounted on mules. In talking to an old woman who brought us strawberries, I was surprised to hear her pronounce the Italian proverb, "Poco a poco fa lontano nel giorno." I thought she must have been beyond the Alps—no, she had never been out of her own mountains. The patois of these people is very agreeable—a mixture of the Italian fond diminutives and accents on the ...
— The Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 1 • Maria Edgeworth
... insino a' papi." Compare, too, the letter of Sebastian, Oct. 15, 1512, in which Julius is reported to have said, "E terribile, come tu vedi, non se pol praticar con lui." Again, Michael Angelo writes: "Sto sempesolo, vo poco attorno e non parlo a persona e massino di fiorentini." Gotti, ...
— Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 - The Fine Arts • John Addington Symonds
... en los mantenimientos y casas de los enemigos se hiciese poco dano, diciendoles el Senor, presto seran estos nuestros como los que ya lo son; como esto tenian conocido, procuraban que la guerra fuese la mas liviana que ser pudiese." Sarmiento, Relacion, ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... near Superstition Pool!' he informed them with suddenly assumed gravity. 'Down in Poco Poco they tell some great tales about the old Indian gods going man-hunting by ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
... Note: Corrected misspelling "affretando" in original] (this term implies some degree of excitement also), stringendo, poco a poco animato. ...
— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens
... Third Variation it assumes increasing importance, through successive appearances in E-flat major, B minor, D major and C major, until after a long fugal development we reach the inspired passage (Poco Andante con ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding
... Then he threw in whatever he came to that was a first choice big piece, until I was really scared, and begged him to stop; but he repeated what the fox said in the story of the "Quarrelsome Cocks"—"Poco was very good, but I have not had enough yet," so he piled in pieces until I ran away with the pillow-case; then he slid in a whole plateful of bread, another of cake, and put the plates in a tub of dishes under the table. Then we took some of everything ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... cortese Mentre ch'io vissi, per lo gran disio Dell'eccellenza ove mio core intese. Di tal superbia qui si paga il fio: Ed ancor non sarei qui, se non fosse Che, possendo peccar, mi volsi a Dio. Oh vana gloria dell'umane posse, Com' poco verde in su la cima dura Se non e giunta dall'etadi grosse! Credette Cimabue nella pintura Tenor lo campo; ed ora ha Giotto il grido, Si che la fama di colui s' oscura. Cosi ha tolto l'uno all'altro Guido La gloria della lingua; e forse e nato ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various
... in passing through the apartments of his palace, has made the melancholy reflection of the venerable Cosmo: "Questa e troppo gran casa a si poco famiglia." MACH. Ist. ...
— Poems • Samuel Rogers |
